Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧
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Dr Gavin Sullivan A.N.A.E.S.T.H.E.T.I.S.T 🇳🇿🇦🇺🇬🇧
@lotusgav.bsky.social
Generalist anaesthetist. Fingers in many pies.
Stoic/humanist
Memento mori/carpe diem. 2000 years old and still true…
Livinginthepause on instagram
#Movember coming along nicely what-o! au.movember.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Heath Robinson ophthalmic anaesthesia! Subtenon FTW
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
#RCoAUpdates worrying signs of CHF
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#RCoAUpdates new NICE guidelines came out a few weeks ago for CHF.
September 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#RCoAUpdates echo guidelines 2025 - interesting.
September 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Wow!
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#RCoAUpdates the commercial space era - right up my alley!!

Anaesthesia plan in microgravity?!

TIVA only!

Shelf life of drugs (thio would last a long time 😊) but bubbles in the solution can’t be “tapped” out!
But TIVA ketamine is the choice…
September 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Out last week - surgical techniques affect post op pain
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#RCoAUpdates resource for learning gastric USS c/o @rosiehogg.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#RCoAUpdates airway ultrasound for prediction and planning.

We are awful at identifying the cricothhroid membrane… USS is much more accurate
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#RCoAUpdates

Lung USS - can answer useful questions
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
#RcoAUpdates @rosiehogg.bsky.social next.

POCUS and clinical decision making.

Gastric USS hot topic - how can it help me?
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Hypertension before surgery due for publish soon - continue the ACE and the AT2 DofS. This is a big change in our neck of the woods. Going to be some inertia getting this change thru… #RCoAUpdates
September 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#RCoAUpdates interventional radiology tips
September 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
@sthjournalclub.bsky.social #RCoAUpdates

Thrombectomy beyond 24 hours - the numbers are going to increase - we’re going to be doing a lot more interventional over the next decades… (chose where you retire! The sooner you get it…)

GA FTW (didn’t know this)
September 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
@sthjournalclub.bsky.social #RCoAUpdates TIVA vs volatile - patient centred outcomes definitely better. Less sick +sore. (Sorry can’t do alt text quick enough)
September 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Do you know what doesn’t believe in British summer time? Sun dials… (the sun came out later you’ll have to take my word for it)
September 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A walk in the woods. UK is fab when the sun shines
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
@barristersecret.bsky.social Queenstown airport NZ 😊
September 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
@emarianomd.bsky.social missed you here this year! You’ve just been name dropped so here in spirit! Just off to read your article on rebound pain
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Wow. If your patient is taking more than 40mg OME after surgery then we should be considering take home naloxone and educating carers. #ansky
August 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Be nice to your training colleagues they reward you with cool stuff sometimes #aviation #ansky
August 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
@anzca.bsky.social didn’t even know we had a pad in Sydney. Anzca educators programme today. Let’s see if we can reach an old dog new tricks!
July 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
NAP7 here - perioperative arrest alludes to drug choice - I’ve used ketamine as default for induction in “sick” patients ever since
July 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM